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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; 50 Shades of Silver

Sea Holly

Sea Holly

When I was in the UK doing my Garden Tour I fell in love with Grey/Silver plants and foliage. The garden of Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst, had an entire garden devoted to these colors!

Sissinghurst Garden, Cranbrook, Kent, UK

Sissinghurst Garden, Cranbrook, Kent, UK

 

Sissinghurst Garden, Cranbrook, Kent, UK

Sissinghurst Garden, Cranbrook, Kent, UK

 

Other gardens had the silver plants here and there, mingling with the hot, red and yellow flowers or used as blenders with the blue. I have decided this year to add silver foliage and flowers to my garden as well. Maybe I’ll end up with 50 shades of Silver! When you start looking for these plants there are lots out there to pick from! I think I will be starting with my favorite Sea Holly! Then add Snow in Summer, (a ground cover) Dusty Miller, Lamb’s Ears, and more Lavender, called Lavender Cotton. I think I grow that already in a pot. You can see these plants Here!

In the end I may end up looking like this gal!

The Silver Gal

The Silver Gal

Silver is a metallic color that was first offered in the Crayola Collection from 1903 until 1915. Then it was offered only in bulk until 1944 and then in assortments from 1944 until 1949. It was also known as Harbor Lights in the “Colors of Baltimore” series and Ghostly Silver in the Halloween Crayon sets. My favorite, is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a silver color in the “Discovery” series.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge! Day 95!

Check out some of the other 150+ challenge participants, it’s amazing what we have done with the Crayola colors in the past 96 days!

 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Razzle Dazzle Rose

Razzle Dazzle de Rose

Razzle Dazzle de Rose

 

For my photo choice I’ve given Razzle Dazzle more flair by giving the roses a french touch, naming it Razzle Dazzle de Rose. These were more of the beautiful flowers seen on my English Garden Tour, 2015.  Did I tell you I received the book, Gardens to Visit 2016, from the National Garden Scheme? I am in the throws of planning my visit this summer to gardens in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex and Kent, oh my!

Razzle Dazzle Rose is the fluorescent color originally known as Hot Magenta from 1972 to 1990. In the “Discovery Series” it was known as Blast Off.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Purple Pizzazz

 

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

 

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

In Europe Crayola calls Purple Pizzazz, Powerful Purple. In the US Purple Pizzazz is a fluorescent color which was introduced to the line in 1990.

In the cottage gardens of the UK you will find some Powerful Purples clustered together to make a beautiful Purple Pizzazz spot in the garden!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Pine Green

Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

 

Acton Burnell Castle, Shropshire, UK

Acton Burnell Castle, Shropshire, UK

 

The Weird, Scary, Trees at Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

The Weird, Scary, Trees at Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

 

Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

The scariest forest that I have been in was at the Acton Burnell Castle in Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK. My relatives once lived there (late 1200’s) so while doing some genealogy research in the UK, I decided to check this place out. It felt so creepy walking to the ruins of this castle. We had to make our way through a forest of weird mossy green, colored trees that looked like they were sunk into the ground at branch level. No tree trunks! I felt they could reach out, pull you down and suck you under, in one long gasp!  I got the feeling something terrible had happened here. One of my extra senses was on high alert! The forest trees were a mixture of the weird shaped trees and pine, but when we got to the ruins itself, only the very tall pines were left.

My relative, Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, was allowed to build a fortified manor house here because he had been a confidant and advisor, for more than thirty years, to King Edward I. One of the first Parliaments between the Commoners and the Lords was held here in the Autumn of 1283 and the Law of Acton Burnell was passed at that time. That statute provided an easier recovery of debts by merchants. It encouraged foreign trade in England. Defaulting debtors could be kept in prison on bread and water at their own expense, until debts were paid! Now that would make you look forward to the end of the month!

So here we are with a photo of Pine Green, the name given to Dark Green when Crayola added new colors to the line in 1958!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Piggy Pink

A Cottage Garden in Warninglid, UK

A Cottage Garden in Warninglid, UK

I looked through a good many of my pictures, but alas, no pig to be found! So no pig in a poke! Where did that phrase come from?

A poke is a sack or bag. It has a French origin as “poque” and, like several other French words, its diminutive is formed by adding “ette” or “et”—hence “pocket” meaning “small bag”. Poke is still in use in several English-speaking places, including Scotland and some regions of the USA. For example among English hop growers, a poke is a large sack into which hops are poured to be taken from the picking machine to the oast for drying. Now remember my pictures of an oast? Here is one in case you forgot. If you would like to learn more about Oasts, I wrote a post (look HERE) during my English Garden Tour!

The Oast at Bateman's, Home of Rudyard Kipling

The Oast at Bateman’s, Home of Rudyard Kipling

In the middle ages, “the pig in a poke” scheme entailed the sale of a suckling pig in a poke. The bag, sold unopened, would actually contain a cat or dog! The French idiom acheter (un) chat en poche (to buy a cat in a bag) refers to an actual sale of this nature. Translation: Don’t buy anything that you haven’t looked over carefully first! Well I looked over all my pictures carefully! No pig, but I do have a photo of a lovely English garden in Warningild with beautiful pink roses!

Pig Pink, also known as Piggy Pink, was added to the Crayola collection in 1998.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Periwinkle

 

Periwinkle Flowers

Periwinkle Flowers

 

Periwinkle Foxgloves

More Periwinkle Flowers

Periwinkle has been in the Crayola line up since 1958. It is also known as Dolphin Fin in the “Discovery” series, Hetty the Blue Duck in the Hallmark “Ugly Duckling” set, and Binneywinkle in the “Special Colors of Binney and Smith”. I don’t know about you, but I may have to start paying attention to crayons again. There seems to be a lot of “series” crayolas!  Thinking of Hetty the Blue Duck reminded me of Beatrix Potter and her Jemima Puddle-duck. I’d never heard of Hetty the Blue Duck. So I looked the book up and sorry Hallmark, no comparison! The Hallmark Ugly Duckling Book is really UGLY! Even the cover of the book is ugly! I’ll stick to Beatrix Potter any day! Soft, airy, wispy, watercolored, pastel drawings, with an enchanting story too, just the way I think periwinkle should be represented!

Here is the Beatrix Potter book and here is a picture of Jemima with that rascally fox!

Beatrix Potter; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck

Beatrix Potter; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck

It’s spring and I just love reading the Beatrix Potter books and looking at her drawings of her favorite animal friends! I ‘m sure some of them would have hung out in the periwinkle-colored flowers!! These photos were taken in a cottage garden in the UK during my English Garden Tour!  I am doing all the prep work for another one this summer, as I speak! I can’t wait!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Green Yellow

 

Sissinghurst Garden, UK

Sissinghurst Garden, UK

I thought this was a great photo to show off the Crayola color Green Yellow, which is a brightish yellow!  Won’t you stroll through the gardens at Sissinghurst, country home of Vita Sackville-West, with me? There is an entire garden devoted to yellow flowers and of course lots of green foliage too! For more pictures of the garden look here!

Green Yellow has been part of Crayola assortment since 1958. It is known as Tye-Dye Lime in the “Retro Colors” set.

In 1948 Crayola started a teacher workshop program to begin in-school training to educate art teachers about the many ways to use the growing numbers of Crayola products. What a great idea!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Gray and Green

 

The Garden Moat at Windsor Castle

The Garden Moat at Windsor Castle

Today, in my photo for the challenge, I have combined the Gray for today and the Green that is tomorrow’s color, since I love this photo of the Windsor Castle Garden Moat so much, and the photo combines both colors so beautifully!  This is what you do if you have the proper moat! Turn it into an exquisite garden!

I really would like a job naming crayons for Crayola!

Gray has certainly made the rounds again at Crayola. Since 1956 it was know as Neutral Gray. In the “Discovery” series it was known both as Satellite Gray and Shark Gray. In the Hallmark, “Ugly Duckling” set it was called Ugly Duckling Gray. In the Hallmark, “Tales of the Tooth Fairy” set it was known as Martin the Mouse Gray and in the “Colors of Washington”, DC series it was called Monument Gray and in the “State Colors Collection,” it was Archway Gray, the color for Missouri. 

They also had the Grey crayola, but I won’t go into that! I say, never let a good grey go to waste!

Green has been part of the Crayola Collection since 1903, but that color also evolved over the years. In the “So Big” set it was Leap Frog Green and Graphic Green in the “Techno Brite” series. In the “Discovery “series it was known as Martian Green as well as Serpent Green. And in the Hallmark series it was known as Bullfrog Green in the “Ugly Duckling” set and in the “Mouse and Hole” set it was Mole’s Green Boots.

What’s all this talk about The Hallmark Company and Crayola? In 1984 Binney & Smith became a subsidiary of the gift and greeting card seller, Hallmark Cards, of Kansas City, Missouri.

One more! In the “110th Anniversary’ set it was known as Jalapeño. Whew!!!  All that kept a colorist busy for awhile!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Fuchsia

Fuchsia

Fuchsia

Fuchsia has been in the Crayola assortment since 1990. In the “State Crayon Collection,” it is known as the First State Fuchsia, the color for Delaware.

The Fuchsia color is a reddish purple color. Mother nature combines the colors in the Fuchsia plant.

This photo was taken in Broadway, the Cotswolds, outside the public bathroom that had won “Bathroom of the Year!”  How I love the English! They celebrate EVERYTHING!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Denim

Denim Along the Walkway

Denim Along the Walkway

The first collection of Crayola Crayons, a safe affordable wax crayon, was produced in 1903. The first box, Box 30, contained 30 unwrapped colors. Soon that was converted to Box 51, a box of 28 wrapped crayons. Box 54 contained the 8 classic colors and sold for a nickel.

In 1904, Binney and Smith won the Gold Medal during the St Louis World’s Fair. Their entry was actually for their dustless chalk, but it was the foundation of their “Gold Medal” packaging, in which they featured the gold medal on the front of their crayon boxes for the next 50 years.

Denim was added to the collection in 1993.

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